Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Relics (1992)
Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker
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Quotes
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Commander William T. Riker : Could someone survive inside a transporter buffer for 75 years?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : I know a way to find out.
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Commander William T. Riker : [of the shuttle that Picard has given Scotty "on extended loan"] She's not much to look at.
Scotty : [grinning] Laddie, every woman has her own charm; ye just have to know where to look for it.
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Commander William T. Riker : This looks like the front door. Should we ring the bell?
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Scotty : Well, thank you, lads. Oh, well, we got to get Franklin out of there.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Someone else's pattern is still in the buffer?
Scotty : Aye, Matt Franklin. We went in together.
[working on the console]
Scotty : Something's wrong. One of the inducers has failed. Boost the gain on the matter stream. Come on, Franklin. I know you're still in there.
[sighing]
Scotty : It's no use. His pattern has degraded 53%. He's gone.
Commander William T. Riker : I'm sorry.
Scotty : So am I. He was a good lad.
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Lt. Worf : I have restored life support. The oxygen levels will return to normal shortly.
Commander William T. Riker : Captain Scott, Lt. Worf.
Scotty : [surprised] Lieutenant?
Lt. Worf : Yes.
Commander William T. Riker : Captain, perhaps there are a few things we should talk about.
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Lt. Worf : We have entered a massive gravitational field, Captain.
Lt. Commander Data : There are no stars or other stellar bodies listed on our navigational charts. However, sensors indicate the presence of an extremely strong gravitational source in this vicinity.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Can you localize the source of the gravitational field?
Commander William T. Riker : [Data puts it on the viewscreen] Sensors?
Lt. Commander Data : I am having difficulty scanning the object. It appears to be approximately 200 million kilometers in diameter.
Commander William T. Riker : That's nearly as large as the Earth's orbit around the sun.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Why didn't we detect this before now?
Lt. Commander Data : The object's enormous mass is causing a great deal of gravimetric interference. That might have prevented our sensors from detecting it before we dropped out of warp.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Mr. Data... could this be a Dyson sphere?
Lt. Commander Data : The object does fit the general parameters of Dyson's theory.
Commander William T. Riker : A Dyson sphere?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's a very old theory, Number One. I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it. In the 20th century, a physicist called Freeman Dyson postulated the theory that an enormous, hollow sphere could be constructed around a star. This would have the advantage of harnessing all the radiant energy of that star and any population living on the interior surface would have virtually inexhaustible sources of power.
Commander William T. Riker : Are you saying you think there are people living in there?
Lt. Commander Data : Possibly a great number of people, Commander. The interior surface area of a sphere this size is the equivalent of more than 250 million Class-M planets.
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[first lines]
Lt. Commander Data : Captain, I have identified the signal. It is from the USS Jenolen, a Federation transport ship reported missing in this sector 75 years ago.
Commander Riker : Code one alpha zero. Ship in distress.
Captain Picard : Take us out of warp, Ensign. All stop.